Fab construction spending is expected to increase by 24.5% (to US$7B) in 2013 (vs. 15% in the May report). Construction spending is forecasted to decline -15.6% (US$5.9B) in 2014 (vs. -18.7% in the May report).

For 2013, 41 construction projects (up from 38 reported in May) are being tracked. For 2014, 26 construction projects (up from 21 projects reported in May) are being tracked.

Fab equipment spending in 2013 is expected to decline to -1% (US$31.8B) (was 2% in May report). This includes the used 300mm equipment Globalfoundries acquired from Promos (NT$20-30B).

Fab equipment spending in 2014 is expected to increase by 25% (US$39.7B) (was 27% in May report).

Equipment spending for DRAM is expected to increase 17% (US$4.7B) in 2013 and 30% (US$6B) in 2014, Flash by 9% (US$5.6B) in 2013 and 46% (US$8.3B) in 2014.

Installed capacity will increase only by 2% in 2013 and the increase doubles to 4% in 2014. This driven by the foundry sector, MPU and Memory.

Dedicated foundries are adding 11% capacity in 2013 and 8% in 2014. Flash is adding 10% in 2013 and about 6% in 2014, while MPU will be flat in 2013 but is adding about 8-9% in 2014, DRAM is adding 2-3% in 2014.

Activity Report

Since the last release (the May 2013 edition) we have made 206 updates.

There are a total of 66 future facilities (starting volume production in 2013 or later)

The reports lists a total of 1147 facilities (includes 247 Opto/LED frontend facilities).

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